Microsoft Word unacceptable compared to Wordperfect

I find Microsoft Word unacceptable. Especially when I compare it to Corel Wordperfect Office. I should know because I am a writer.

Microsoft Word unacceptable ribbon bar interface — Let’s start with the Microsoft Word Interface. Instead of the traditional menu setup most of Microsoft’s competitors were using. Particularly Word Perfect, MIcrosoft gave its customers this streamlined ribbon bar. But take my word for it. This ribbon bar is very confusing. I would oftentimes have to resort to looking up Word functions using the Google Search engine. This is very time consuming. Which makes Microsoft Word unacceptable for me. But that’s just the tip of the iceberg. Doing footnotes for example is very time consuming in Microsoft Word whereas in Word Perfect it’s very intuitive.

I have Microsoft Office 2010, and I absolutely despise it. I loath Microsoft Office so much that I’ve actually reviewed it. So if you want a totally honest assessment of Microsoft Office click here. But I also have Microsoft Office on my computers . If I don’t, there’s no way that I can send and receive correctly formatted documents from users of Microsoft Office.

In the past several years I’ve written and produced four books. But if I am to receive reports from Amazon on how many paperback books and Kindle books I’ve sold I need Microsoft Excel.

I also need Excel to export Quickbooks accounting files to a spreadsheet. Excel comes with Microsoft Office. This means I must have Microsoft Office on my computer.

It doesn’t matter how much I detest Microsoft. I have to have it because everyone else has it. I infinitely prefer Wordperfect Office X-7 which is so superior to Microsoft Office that it makes Microsoft Word unacceptable for word processing.

In Microsoft Office the Excel Spreadsheet module is excellent. But the Word word processor module needs to be thrown into the toilet. It smells that bad.

I just admitted that Excel, the spreadsheet component of Microsoft Office, is quite good. But, Quattro Pro, which is Wordperfect Office’s spreadsheet module, is equally good.

But Microsoft Word needs to be taken off the market. It is terrible. This means that Microsoft Office needs to be taken off the market. Even though it contains Excel, it’s got one of the worse Word processor’s that has ever been foisted upon the consumer.

Microsoft Word unacceptable Wordperfect menu easy to use — This is your bread and butter Wordperfect menu driven interface. Most features you will be using the most are clearly shown without your having to search into the menus to find them. Example in point….outlining. Or bullets. Fonts. Margins. Positioning of text such as left justification, right or center. It’s right there in front of your face. But suppose you want something more specific. Such as page numbering? You just click on format and then you will see Page. This simply makes clear common sense. Nearly all formatting options are under formatting where they should be. With the Microsoft ribbon bar, such formatting options are all over the place. Bottom line. Microsoft Word unacceptable. These three words tell you all you need to know.

I’ve written four books. I’ve had to use Word to upload my files to the amazon servers. I need to do this to self publish my books with Amazon. The Amazon servers will not accept Wordperfect files so I am stuck having to use Word.

I’ve had to spend three times as much work trying to format each book in Word as I’ve had to in Wordperfect.

And even then I couldn’t format my book captions in Word because of its unacceptable limitations.

Well perhaps you won’t believe me. But will you believe over 300 independent reviews from the people who have actually bought Wordperfect and Microsoft Office from Amazon?

The funny thing is, when you read the reviews of Wordperfect Office versus Microsoft Office in computer magazines such as Computer World and P.C. Magazine you will always find that Microsoft Office comes out on top.

But who do you think is spending more money advertising their products with these magazines? Corel, which is Wordperfect’s parent company or Microsoft? You better believe that Microsoft is spending a lot more advertising dollars than Corel. It has huge market dominance over everybody else. Almost every personal computer being sold must have Microsoft Windows. This means Microsoft gets tons of money selling the operating system software alone.

With Wordperfect you can easily choose from a different looks for your basic interface. This is the classic 5.1 version Wordperfect interface. It’s clean and uncluttered with a lovely blue background color. This is terrific for distraction free writing. This background is the same one Wordperfect was using 20 years ago in its Dos 5.1 version of Wordperfect before Microsoft even introduced its first Windows operating system. One can also choose a Microsoft Word interface. There’s so many variations you can choose from in Wordperfect. THat makes Microsoft Word unacceptable. Word is simply too limited and too confusing.

Many people don’t realize this. But Microsoft used to bundle Microsoft Office with each copy of Microsoft Windows it sold. This meant that everyone buying the Windows operating system was getting Microsoft Office for free.

Meanwhile companies such as Wordperfect were selling their office software at pretty hefty prices. But I will tell you this. In those days Wordperfect had wonderful technical support.

I formatted my first book beautifully thanks to the exceptional technical phone support from Wordperfect. So I didn’t have to pay the experts to typeset my book. The Wordperfect support team spent hours on the phone with me. And I didn’t have to spend one dime because I had already paid over a hundred dollars to Wordperfect for the initial software.

But practically everybody else was getting Microsoft Office for free. While Microsoft designed Microsoft Office to integrate perfectly with its Microsoft Windows Windows Operating system.

Whereas Wordperfect Office always had problems working with Microsoft’s operating system software. Microsoft made sure of that.

This all ended with complete Microsoft dominance in the office software market. Why should anyone buy office or word processing software from anyone else when they already had it on their computers? Especially when they’d have to pay for software that doesn’t run smoothly on Microsoft Windows operating systems?

Microsoft Word unacceptable compared to Wordperfect — The Wordprocessor interface doesn’t get any simpler than this. There are no menu headings here whatsoever. What you are looking at is basically a clean white sheet of paper on a computer screen. This is the ultimate for distraction free writing. This is what most real writers want. And you get it with Wordperfect. But if you want instant access to the Wordperfect menus you just hit the escape key and voila. The menus appear. The flexibility of the Wordperfect interface and menu system once again makes Microsoft Word unacceptable for advanced users.

Just remember that money is number one with all these “Trusted Magazines” such as Computer World and P.C. Magazine.

So whoever spends the most advertising dollars with them is going to get the best reviews.

But if you want to find out the real truth you need to check out the Microsoft Office and Wordperfect Office 7 customer reviews on Amazon. These customers are actual end users of Wordperfect. And Wordperfect Office 7 is now selling for just $78 at amazon.

These customers are giving Wordperfect Office X-7 4 ½ stars while only giving Microsoft’s Office 3 stars.

These numbers do not lie. Ponder this. There are something like 300 customer user reviews at Amazon and that the customers are not getting paid anything for their unbiased ratings.

What I am saying is completely true, and a proven fact when you consider that the customers who are actually buying Corel’s Wordperfect Office and Microsoft Office from Amazon are giving Wordperfect’s Office X-7 4 ½ stars while only giving Microsoft’s Office 365 Home edition 4 stars. These numbers do not lie. The customers are not getting paid anything for their unbiased ratings.

Also–this latest Microsoft Office is subscription only. You get to pay $85 now. Then next year Microsoft hits your credit card up again for another $85.00 And so on ad nauseum.

Getting back to the actual user experience of these two Office software programs,

it’s not just the user friendliness of Wordperfect that makes Microsoft Word unacceptable. Its far richer feature set makes Microsoft Word unacceptable to the advanced user as well as to novice.

of Wordperfect that puts it far ahead of its rival. Wordperfect Office has a reveal codes setup that totally puts Wordperfect in front of Microsoft Office when it comes to correcting the look of your documents. And how to you access, “Reveal Codes”? Where you intuitively know where this feature should reside. Just click on View, and there it is. “Reveal Codes”.

Keep in mind also that even these unbiased Amazon customer ratings do not tell the entire story. A lot of the customers giving good ratings for Microsoft Office don’t know any better. They’ve never had Wordperfect on their computers before so they have nothing to compare their Microsoft Office software to. But most of the reviewers for Wordperfect Office that are giving it a 4.5 star rating have had both on their computers. What I am saying is Microsoft Office is lucky to get even 4 stars.

I am a high end user. I’ve published 4 books using either Microsoft Office or Wordperfect Office.

Wordperfect has done an outstanding job doing all typesetting tasks. Microsoft Office hasn’t. It’s confusing. It’s clunky. And it lacks so many features that Wordperfect has in spades.

The advanced formatting and typesetting features of Wordperfect Office makes Microsoft Word unacceptable to all advanced users. Bottom line is this. I can format and typeset a book three times as fast in Wordperfect as I can with Microsoft Office software. And I can do this 10 times easier. Enough said.

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